FITNESS CONCEPTS

The knowledge and expertise of leading academics, coaches and practitioners has guided and influenced our approach to fitness. Learn more about the fitness concepts underpinning our weight management, joint mobility and strength training methods.

What Is Effective Fitness?

Sports scientists recognize the development of 10 general physical skills:

An effective training program should address each of these physical skills. Our clients gain physical competence in each of the ten recognized fitness domains. This has tremendous carry-over for virtually any physical endeavour.

Fitness In A Nutshell

Observations from 30+ years of coaching:

Train All Physical Skills

Vary Your Workouts For Maximum Carry-Over

• Excel At All Physical Tasks and Challenges
• Dominate Sports With Superior Athleticism
• Learn New Sports and Physical Skills Easily
• Get A Stronger and More Adaptable Body
• Perform Everyday Tasks More Efficiently

Specialization: Fitness Enemy

Elite endurance athletes are often regarded as the prototypes of elite fitness. But how would they rate if they were marked against the above fitness model? Elite endurance athletes exhibit few of the ten recognized physical skills.

American Strength and Conditioning Coach, Greg Glassman, sums it up best:

"The triathlete, cyclist, and marathoner are often regarded as the fittest athletes on earth. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The endurance athlete has trained long past any cardiovascular health benefit and has lost ground in strength, speed, and power, typically does nothing for coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy and possesses little more than average flexibility."

Specialized endurance athletes show tremendous cardiovascular endurance at their chosen sport, but they are sorely prepared for any other physical challenge. Our aim is to increase an individual’s competency at all physical tasks. In other words:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
(Robert Heinlein)

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